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January 1991
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The genus Pegopteronyssus seems to be restricted to Africa and includes only P. phyllurus, a parasite of the capitonid genera Gymnobucco, Lybius, Smilorhis, Stactolaema and Tricholaema. The genus Pteronyssus is ubiquitous. Four African species assigned to this genus are very closely related, forming a species complex. All of them parasitize Picidae of the genus Campethera. -from English summary
... With the exception for Conomerus, which also occurs on barbets (Piciformes: Capitonidae), these genera are restricted in their host associations to woodpeckers. Investigations of pteronyssid species diversity and analysis of their host associations with woodpeckers of the Old World have been carried out for mites distributed in Eurasia (Cerny and Schumilo 1973, Mironov 1989, 2003 and Africa (Gaud 1990(Gaud , 1991. Pteronyssid mites living on woodpeckers of the Old World are currently represented by 27 species of four genera: Conomerus (three species), Neopteronyssus (16 species), Pteronyssus (four species), and Zygepigynia (four species). ...
January 1991
